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67. The Eternal human Soul: The Supersensible Human Being 18 Apr 1918, Berlin

While you dwell on the thing, you discover: what you bring up as memory is, actually, subconscious knowledge, a deeper level of consciousness in which our usual ego does not live. However, this consciousness penetrates the force of growth.
In our usual consciousness, we perceive the physical corporeality. This subconsciousness perceives this corporeality in us.
Our corporeality stimulates our ego in the usual consciousness from without. We collide in the usual consciousness with our body; this stimulates our ego-idea.
35. The Luciferic and Ahrimanic in Relation to Man 31 Dec 1918,

One cannot investigate this connection without directing one's attention to the changing characteristics of man's life in successive periods. When our observation has been sharpened by spiritual-scientific training we perceive the constitution of a child's soul from birth to the change of teeth to be quite different from that between the change of teeth and puberty.
Into every human consciousness the will intrudes as an immediately perceptible element, even when this consciousness, by its own constitution of soul, darkens insight into the supersensible world.
This difficulty cannot be overcome by philosophic considerations which only take account of the manifestations of ordinary consciousness. For it arises from this: between the bodily processes perceptible to ordinary consciousness and the soul-being of which this consciousness can gain a knowledge, there exists no connection.
79. Paths to Knowledge of Higher Worlds 26 Nov 1921, Oslo
Translator Unknown

This imaginative knowledge brings forms into our consciousness, forms which are experienced just as livingly as any sense-perception. But they have a peculiar quality of their own.
If the tableau of which I have spoken has been suppressed, so that an empty consciousness is established, then we have an empty consciousness for a certain time; this can be achieved if we suppress merely a concept.
When we are subjected to hallucinations or suggestions, the ordinary consciousness is entirely supplanted by a pathological consciousness. In the state of consciousness which Anthroposophy strives to reach for the attainment of knowledge of higher worlds, the essential thing is to maintain our ordinary consciousness in its full extent, so that we keep our sound common sense and our calm state of mind while ascending to the higher worlds.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whitsun Festival. Its Place in the Study of Karma 04 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

And now he may gaze upon the Christmas Mystery—the new-born Child, the Representative of Humanity on Earth, who, inasmuch as he is entering into childhood, is born into this world of Space.
According to what we have explained to-day, it can only be from Time. From out of Time the Child is born. If we then follow out the life of this Child and His permeation by the Spirit of the Christ-Being, we come to realise that this Being, this Christ-Being, comes from the Sun.
The reason why it is so hard for us to understand the traditions of primeval epochs, when we go back to them with the consciousness of present-day civilisation, is that they always had in mind [Space], and not the world of [Time].
354. On the Development of Human Culture: Lecture II 06 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by Violet E. Watkin

This is something in the history of culture which constitutes a real step forward for the human race—this consciousness man has of his freedom. With it he no longer feels the spirit driving him as instinct drives the animal; he feels the spirit actually within him, and this distinguishes him from the man of former times.
On the last page of this paper there was a curious picture—a small child, quite a baby and its nurse, looking after it, an ape, an orang-utan. It was holding the child quite properly, and it was said to be installed somewhere in America as children's nurse.
It makes a difference whether they beat with their flail on the out-breath or the in-breath, or whether they do it. as the breath is changing over from one to the other. Why is this? It is easy to see that it is nothing to do with the intellect, for today it no longer happens; everything of the kind is being wiped out.
322. The Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VIII 03 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Frederick Amrine, Konrad Oberhuber

By this time a person is less intensively connected to that within than he was as a child. A child is closely bound up inwardly with human equilibrium, movement, and life. Something else, however, is evolving simultaneously during this emancipation of balance, movement, and life.
It is extremely interesting to observe in detail the way in which a child gradually finds his way into life, orienting himself by means of the senses of taste, smell, and touch.
While on the one hand we have penetrated into our inner being and have deepened our power of Imagination, on the other hand we have raised what resulted from our mental work on The Philosophy of Freedom up out of ordinary consciousness. Thoughts that formerly had floated more or less abstractly within pure thinking have been transformed into substantial forces that are alive in our consciousness: what once was pure thought is now Inspiration.
27. Fundamentals of Therapy: Typical Cases of Illness
Translated by E. A. Frommer, J. Josephson

Also the mother of the child, and the mother's sister. Diagnosis led us from the illness of the child to that of her mother and of the sister.
On the first day after arrival home the child had a convulsion, which recurred daily for the next two months. During the attacks the child became stiff, with the eyes deviated.
This showed itself in the uselessness on the right side in the child. We had now to relate the condition of the child to that of the mother. The latter was thirty-seven years old when she came to us.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Thirtirth Meeting 15 Mar 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Only when there are more schools could we make a decision of that sort according to their characteristics, that is, when we can influence the further course of the child’s life. That we have thirty percent who participate in this class is still too few to justify changing our plans for them.
It doesn’t matter which one you give, but you cannot slap a child sentimentally. The class reflects our thoughts. You need to be firmer in your own thoughts.
We need to try to bring him along so that he overcomes his self-consciousness and participates in handwork. He should certainly learn bookkeeping. We need to find a teacher for him.
41b. H. P. Blavatsky's, “The Key to Theosophy”: VIII. On Re-Incarnation or Re-Birth

5 (See On post mortem and post natal Consciousness.) The personality with its Skandhas is ever changing with every new birth. It is, as said before, only the part played by the actor (the true Ego) for one night.
This consciousness or mind is, Manas,7 the derivation or product in a reflected form of Ahamkara, "the conception of I," or EGO-SHIP.
But are there no modes of communication between the Spiritual and human consciousness or memory? Theo. Of course there are; but they have never been recognised by your scientific modern psychologists.
136. Occultism and Initiation 12 Apr 1912, Helsinki
Translator Unknown

In the large field accessible to our ordinary consciousness there are two things which evidently lead us out of our ordinary consciousness without dazing us or putting us to sleep, as is the case every evening, when we go to bed. These two things in our ordinary consciousness that may serve as a kind of pattern for the way in which our consciousness can transcend its ordinary limits and penetrate into an unknown sphere, these two things must be sought in the moral field.
Consciousness falls asleep, as it were, in the face of another person's sorrows and joys. The second experience which pertains to the moral sphere and leads us out of our ordinary consciousness, is conscience.

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